We’ve completely redesigned the in-meeting tool so it’s easier to write minutes during your meeting.

How does this help?

The in-meeting tool is like a slideshow of your agenda, and it should be using during your meeting. It shows you one topic at a time, and helps you add minutes, action items, and parking lot items that come up during that topic.

The entire tool fits on your computer screen, which means there’s no need to scroll around while you add meeting minutes. Any minutes that you add with the in-meeting tool are saved to your meeting page.

How does this work?

Click the “Use the in-meeting tool” link on the right side of your meeting:

This opens up the in-meeting tool. On the left side of the tool is your first agenda topic, with a place to add minutes, action items, and parking lot items:

On the right side is a list of all your agenda topics:

Once you’re done discussing the first topic, click the “Go To Next Topic” button. You can also click on any of the topics to skip ahead in the agenda.

We’ve kept the topic timer in this new design, so you can keep track of how much time you’re spending on each topic. On the right side of the page, underneath your current topic, is a “Start Timer” link:

The timer shows up right next to your topic’s time estimate, so you can gauge when it’s time to move on.

When you’re meeting is over, click the “Go back to your meeting page” link at the top and you can review all the minutes you added:

Questions or feedback?

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You can now choose how you’d like dates to be formatted in MeetingMix. Dates can be formatted as Month/Day/Year (like 4/22/2010 for April 22) or Day/Month/Year (like 22/4/2010 for April 22).

This lets you enter any date, like a meeting date or an action item due date, in the format you prefer.

How does this work?

Visit your Account Settings by clicking the “Account” link at the top right of your page, and then clicking “Account Settings”:

Then click the “Date format” link on the right side of the page:

You can then choose your preferred date format:

Questions or feedback?

Feel free to leave a comment or send us an email at contact[at]meetingmix.com

We’ve added a new feature that lets you copy a past meeting’s agenda to a new meeting.

How does this help?

If you run one-time meetings with similar agendas, you can use this feature to copy an old agenda over to a new meeting, without having to retype every topic.

This feature is primarily for one-time meetings. If you have a recurring series, we automatically create new meetings and help you import topics from past meetings in the series.

How does this work?

Go to your “All Meetings” page and find the past meeting that you want to copy. Click the “Show Agenda” link for that meeting:

Click the “Copy agenda to new meeting” link underneath the agenda. This will prompt you to create a new meeting:

Enter your new meeting’s name and date, and then we’ll automatically copy your past agenda to this meeting.

Questions or feedback?

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MeetingMix automatically creates the next meeting in your recurring series. We’ve just added a feature that gives you more control over this process. You can now create a future meeting right when you need it, without having to wait for MeetingMix to automatically create it.

This feature is completely optional. We’ll continue to automatically create the next meeting in your recurring series, but if you’d like to have the next 2 or 3 meetings handy, you can use this feature to create those too.

How does this work?

On the right side of your “All Meetings” page there’s a list of your recurring series. Click the series that you want to create a future meeting for:

At the top of this page there’s a list of upcoming meetings in this series:

In this example, the meeting on April 30 hasn’t been created yet, and we’ll automatically create it for you on April 24. If you need that meeting right now though, just click the “create it now” link.

This instantly creates the meeting for you. Since this meeting is tied to all the other meetings in this series, you can do things like import topics from past meetings in the series.

Questions or feedback?

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A couple months ago we added time estimates for agenda topics. After you wrote your agenda you could go to a separate page and add time estimates for your topics.

We’ve updated this feature to make this process easier. You can now add time estimates as you write topics, without having to visit a separate page.

How does this work?

The form where you add an agenda topic has a new “Length” field:

Enter the number of minutes that you want to allot for this topic, or leave it at 0 if you don’t want to add a time estimate.

After you’ve added a time estimate, your meeting’s total time shows up at the top of the agenda:

Click the “edit” link if you prefer the previous method of adding time estimates. This will take you to a separate page where you can add and edit all your time estimates at once.

Questions or feedback?

Feel free to leave a comment or send us an email at contact[at]meetingmix.com